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[Portrait of a Cree or Nakota hunter]. Original title: Portrait of a Stoney Indian

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

1819

Reference:

Box number: BK-004

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2963403

Context of this record:

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

[Portrait of a Cree or Nakota hunter]. Original title: Portrait of a Stoney Indian
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1819

Place:

Likely Fort Carlton in present-day Saskatchewan:

Place of creation:

Saskatchewan

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour on wove paper
Support x cm

Language of material:

English

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Small portrait in profile of a hunter, probably Cree, with a quiver of arrows over his shoulder. Likely sketched at Fort Carlton. There is faint writing on the bottom half of the folio.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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Source of title:

Title assigned by the archivist.

Physical description note:

This item is one page (folio 59 verso) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency of the item before conservation is of the double page spread, folio 59 verso and 60 recto (C-141466 and C-141467). This page has also been copied as C-145978 and C-146887.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in pencil, t.: "at 7 Lost sight of [illegible] / Tuesday September 2 [illegible] / [illegible]"; in black brushpoint, b.: "Stone Indian"; (Partial transcription)
Subject heading:

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Portraits

Saskatchewan
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1994-254 DAP
00001.59V
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access under supervision of art archivist

Box [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-004 Item no. assigned by LAC 1.59V

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [00001.59]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-141466;

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-145978;

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-146887;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-1.59V. Acquired with the assistance of Hoechst and Celanese Canada and with a grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage under the Cultural Property Export and Import Act
Copyright: Expired

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